Quotes about Witness

xxx all souls are equal in heaven. Only in heaven, I thought. And this is not heaven. This is a place for snakes and ladders, and though I was once high up on a ladder propped up against the Tree of Life, now I've slid down a snake. How gratifying for the others to witness my fall!

People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into the account.

True love is something seen and known by others.

True faith energizes vocal proclamation and courageous witness concerning its glorious object: Jesus.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

Our individual lives alone are not a sufficient witness. Our lives together as church communities are the confirming echo of our witness.

We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God's work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don't agree on some secondary matters.